Gillian Apps

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Gillian Apps
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Apps in action for Brampton Thunder, 2009
Born (1983-11-02) November 2, 1983 (age 40)
North York, Ontario, Canada
Height 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight 180 lb (82 kg; 12 st 12 lb)
Position Forward
Shot Left
ECAC
CWHL team		 Dartmouth (2002–07)
Brampton Thunder
National teamFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Playing career 2001–2015
Medal record
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Women's ice hockey
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Turin Tournament
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Vancouver Tournament
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Sochi Tournament
IIHF World Women's Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2004 Canada Tournament
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Canada Tournament
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2012 United States Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2005 Sweden Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2008 China Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2009 Finland Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Switzerland Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Canada Tournament
4 Nations Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Canada Tournament
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Sweden Tournament
MLP Nations Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Germany Tournament

Gillian Mary Apps (born November 2, 1983) is a women's ice hockey player. Apps was a member of the Canadian National Hockey Team that won back to back gold medals in three consecutive Olympic Games.

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As a psychology major at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States, Apps was a member of her college's ice hockey team, competing in ECAC women's ice hockey. She was a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team, winning gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. She was also a winner of gold medals with Team Canada at the 2004 and 2007 World Ice Hockey Championships, and silver medals in that event in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013.

Apps was a member of the Brampton Thunder in the Canadian Women's Hockey League until 2015 at which point she announced her retirement from professional women's hockey. Apps resides in Unionville, Ontario. [1]

Playing career

Coaching career

In the autumn of 2016, Apps joined Katie King's coaching staff with the Boston College Eagles women's ice hockey program.

Career stats

Dartmouth

YearGames PlayedGoalsAssistsPointsPIM
2002–033022133559
2003–042322133569
2004–052916264265
2006–073130164688

[8]

Hockey Canada

EventGames PlayedGoalsAssistsPointsPIM
2004 World Championships12:----0410
2005 World Championships54268
2006 Olympics5771414
2007 World Championships51344
2008 World Championships5101888
2009 World Championships52133
2010 Olympics534710

[9]

Awards and honours

Personal life

Apps attended William Berczy Public School in Unionville, Ontario. Apps also participates in snowboarding, wakeboarding, golf, and soccer. She grew up playing girls hockey in the Greater Toronto Area, and attended Havergal College where she excelled as a female athlete. [12] Prior to the 2010 Olympics, Apps worked at the Royal Bank of Canada in an Olympians program, where she was called upon to meet clients or give motivational speeches to employees. [13]

Apps is the granddaughter of Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1936 to 1948, and Hockey Hall of Fame member Syl Apps, and the daughter of Canadian retired professional ice hockey centre Syl Apps Jr., who played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins. Her brother Syl Apps III was signed as a free agent by the Toronto Maple Leafs on July 22, 1999, although he never played a game with the Maple Leafs. [14] Her sister, Amy was a member of the Canadian National women's soccer team [15] and an OUA All Star in 1998 and 1999. [16] Her cousin, rower Darren Barber, won a gold medal in the men's eight at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona as a member of the Canadian team. [17] Barber also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he finished 4th. Apps's sister-in-law is Meaghan Sittler, whose father Darryl Sittler competed in the NHL. She is the aunt to a nephew named Sawyer.

On April 17, 2012, Apps (along with Meghan Agosta, Caroline Ouellette, Courtney Birchard, and head coach Dan Church) took part in the opening face off of the playoff game between the Ottawa Senators and the New York Rangers at ScotiaBank Place. [18]

On September 22, 2018, Apps married American women's hockey player Meghan Duggan. [19] Their son, George, was born on February 29, 2020. [20] They had a daughter, Olivia, in October 2021. [21] Their third child, daughter Sophie, was born on December 31, 2023. [22]

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